The Hotelling's  control chart, is the most widely used multivariate procedure for monitoring  two or more related quality characteristics, but it’s power lacks the desired performance in detecting small to moderate shifts. Recently, the variable sampling intervals (VSI) control scheme in which the length of successive sampling intervals is determined upon the preceding values has been proved t...

In this work, an integrated model of economic production quantity, economic design of an -control chart, and preventive maintenance are investigated under non-uniform quality control parameters. The effect on the expected total cost and quality control cost is investigated with three different assumptions of the quality control parameters. Using a tabu seach algorithm, the optimal values of qua...

Background: Vision plays an important role in supporting efficient locomotion. The present study aimed to measure the physiological cost index (PCI) and some kinematic parameters of preferred walking and jogging in blind and sighted students.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among blind (n=18) and sighted (n=27) students aged 8-16 years. The following parameters were measured...

In recent years, car-sharing systems have been announced as a way to increase mobility and to decrease the number of single-occupant vehicles, congestion, and air pollution in many parts of the world. This study presents a linear programming model to optimize one-way car-sharing systems for electric cars considering the depreciation costs of chargers and vehicles as well as relocation cost of v...

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine recently has been added to the Iran Drug List, decision makers need information beyond that available from RCTs to recommend funding for this vaccination program to add it to the National Immunization program in Iran. Modeling and economic studies have addressed some of those information needs in foreign countries. In order to determine the long term benefit ...

Bundle adjustment (BA) is an optimization process refining the estimates of extrinsic camera parameters (position and orientation, or pose) and the three dimensional (3D) positions of features using overlapping images from multiple views. The optimization in BA may be formulated many ways. We compare four alternatives, including the standard formulation, from the perspectives of the region of c...

In this paper, a fuzzy based inventory model for imperfect quality items has been developed with shortages. The parameters fixed cost; holding cost and shortage cost are considered as fuzzy numbers. We considered the triangular fuzzy number to represents fuzzy parameters. The optimum order quantity is obtained in fuzzy sense with the help of signed distance method. The proposed model is illustr...

Abstract. MAP estimators and HPD credible sets are often criticized in the literature because of paradoxical behaviour due to a lack of invariance under reparametrization. In this paper, we propose a new version of MAP estimators and HPD credible sets that avoid this undesirable feature. Moreover, in the special case of non-informative prior, the new MAP estimators coincide with the invariant f...